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Survey Underscores Importance of Social Media - and Failure of Many Retailers to Fully Use It

Social media and digital, customer data and brand awareness are the top three challenges in retail marketing, and digital advertising is among the most important tools in that arena, says a survey by SAP AG.

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Brewer Reduced By 50% Planning and Control Processes Implementation Time

Challenge: One of the world’s leading brewers challenge was how to develop planning competencies, across six businesses in Latin America, which were consistent, sustainable, and contributed to operational and financial results.

Global Consistency and Accuracy: Supply Chain Synchronization Through Forecast Planning

Challenge: A leading global OTC company needed to standardize its demand planning process across 8 countries, utilizing technology and services to create a consensus plan regardless of technical, language and cultural challenges.

Proprietary Software Improves Visibility of Returned Products

Challenge: A major national retailer of home improvement products was plagued by an inefficient reverse logistics process. Products returned to vendor were controlled on an ad-hoc basis by individual stores or regions, creating major disruptions and poor visibility throughout the supply chain.

Our Client Takes the Wheel with a Machine-to-Machine Solution

Challenge: Our client collects, reports, and analyzes fleet vehicle data before, during, and after trips. They needed Machine-to-Machine connectivity for sensitive communications from vehicles to back-end systems. To maintain their rapid business growth, they wanted an easily managed solution with international reach.

Exposing the Weakest Security Link - Your Supply Chain

Corporate criminals are using professional and systematic methods to target the weakest link for global organizations, the supply chain. High profile exploits such as Target's supply chain disaster are raising concerns across numerous verticals on business stability. With the threat of tainted and counterfeit technology products building every day, organizations must come together now and take what steps they can to mitigate risks to the supply chain.

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Vendor Resilience Crucial to Avoiding Risk of Business Interruption, Study Says

As businesses increasingly rely on external parties for critical services, they become more vulnerable to business interruptions. This is especially true when such businesses know little about their third-party vendors' resiliency and recovery capabilities, according to PwC US, which examined the effects that vendor resiliency, or lack thereof, can have on an organization's business continuity strategy.

CPG Eliminates Delays and Theft by Investing at the Border

Challenge: A leading food provider that ships fresh fruit from Mexico was impacted by two major issues. 1. Delayed deliveries. When it looked closer into milestone events they found all delays were occurring when trucks went through customs. The delays were having a direct impact on goods quality. 2. Missing trucks and drivers. Drivers in Mexico were being kidnapped.

GE Capital Fleet Services Offers New Online Fleet-Management Platform

GE Capital Fleet Services has launched MyFleetOffice2, an online truck fleet-management platform.

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Oracle Adds In-Memory Application to JD Edwards Suite

Oracle Corp. has introduced an In-Memory Planning Advisor for its JD Edwards EnterpriseOne enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite.

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UK Manufacturers Lost Significant Amounts in Preventable Supply Chain Problems

Large UK manufacturers lost more than £58m in 2013 following a raft of preventable supply chain issues, including firms' failures to deliver goods on time.

OMP Plus footprint with Central & Collaborative Forecasting and Inventory Optimization

Challenge: The Demand Planning function fits well into customer's strategy for a comprehensive Production Planning software suite. A key consideration is on the agility within the Demand Planning process as well as its integration to other functions of the Supply Chain.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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